Friday, November 19, 2010

Top 5 PlayStation 2 Games

This week I'll talk about my favorite PS2 games I grew up with.


5. Tekken 4
     Tekken was the fighting franchise that a grew up with for the Sony consoles. Its a very good fighting game that has a character that is one of my favorites in 2 games (Yoshimitsu, also in Soul Caliber series.) With a big variety of fighters and styles there isn't a fighter you won't like.  This game is the best fighting game for the PS2 and deserves my number 5 spot.



4. Metal Gear Solid 3
      This game is bad-ass. I can't explain the plot because I would end up stewing it up (doing these by memory no sources) Some bosses tried to screw with your mind while others tried to blast you sky high the game feels more like a movie, but I can never get it right. I always end up confusing myself in the plot so I rate it by gameplay and what not. Its a survival stealth operation as snake has to take out um... (see I dont remember his name >_< Its been a while) All I can say is the story is great, if you can follow it, the music is awesome, the gameplay is fantastic. Well deserving of my number 4 spot






3. God of War
     This game is amazing when it comes down to everything. The visual, fighting, controls, and character development is awesome and its just so fun to finish monsters in a action sequence. The game has one of the best boss battles (right beside Resident evil 4 in that category) and very gory and based on true Greek mythology, and stories. A well developed and unique game at the time and  gets a spot at number 3.




2. Kingdom Hearts 
     To think that a Disney game would actually be one of my favorite games of all time. Thats what happens when they let SquareSoft takes control of the world of Disney or should I say worlds.  This game starts out with the three main characters, Sora, Riku, and Kiari, building a sailboat to go find another world.  Then one night dark creatures invade the Island they where making the boat. Sora goes out to check on it to find the Dark figures going after him and Riku. Riku, not being afraid of the dark, embraced it and was taken by the darkness. Sora, as he is about to be engulfed by darkness as well, tries to fight it off then gets a weapon called a keyblade. With the Keyblade he was able to fend of the darkness near him but it was too late for his world and got sucked into darkness.
     He then wakes up in another world and meets Donald and Goofy. They team up going to one world to another to find Sora's friends Riku and Kiari. (all the worlds are worlds of Disney characters ex. Aladdin = Agraba  and Peter Pan = Never Land.)  There are allot of plot twist and the story is touching till the very end and is worth the number 2 spot.










1. Shadow of the Colossus 
      This game.... This game is the best game on the PS2 period.  Such a unique element in gaming history and gameplay that has not been done before. I hope they never make a sequel (it will make it more special that way)
     This game is about this boy (or guy really can't tell he looks, I would say 19-21 age) takes his dead wife or his love to an temple way out in the country no where near the  city they where living at.  The voice of the temple tells him her love can come back to life, but he must kill 16 Colossi to do it. Let me tell you that this is no easy task the first time I fought a Colossus I had no idea what to do. It was an overwhelming feeling that this humongous creature is going to destroy you if you don't act fast.
     You have to some how climb on it and find its weak points to kill it. The ending has you in an emotional state because of the plot twist (don't want to spoil it) It does have a learning curve from the 1st colossus being the easiest one and the last one being impossible. This game overall deserves my number 1 spot.

3 comments:

  1. Resident Evil didn't make it to the PS2 games. I like your choices and yes, I'm surprised a Disney game made it! I've never played Colossus, but I want to now! God of War is one of my favs
    Good Work!

    ReplyDelete
  2. I had Resident Evil 4 for the Gamecube and it originally was only for the Gamecube for a year. So it was disqualified hehe.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Also It makes me wonder in Shadow of the Colossus how in the world is the PS2 able to handle and render such an open area while fighting a giant creature? It never lags or hick-ups once in the game!

    ReplyDelete